Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-10
MINNESOTA.

Rochester Monday Of next week.
An OwatoDna man was fired 1900 fer
thrashipg his wife with q pitchfork.
The Winona district conference OF the VI.
r. church 10 IN session his week az Spring
Valley.
Rev. 4. ID. Irwin, Oh the Presbyterian
church Of Mankato, VIII leave fer Mexico to
engage In missionary work.
John HeatA, = prisoner confined ia Jail at
Faribault for stealing a gold watch and chain,
broke jail wednesday and escaped.
At Montgomery Mrs. Jsmts Nightingale
died of typhoid fever the 23l, her Gaia the
3tst, and now Mr.. Nightingale is expected 10
die.
The General Congregational association
of Minnesota will hold its thirty second au-
nuat session at Fergus Falls, September 20
&c %
The Industrial, Mechanical aud Agricultur-
al society of Waseca county viii hold "A fair
beginning October 4 and continuing three
days.
A big indignation meeting was held at
Waseca to denounce the Minneapolis at ST.
Louis road for tearing up side-tracks at that
place.
The Farmers Institute at Red Wing was
addressed b7 Hon. D. .. Herbert, president
of the Industrial association, and Chaplain
Allison, OF the state senate.
Dr. G. N. Hewitt, Of Red Wing, secretary
of tie state board of health, goes 10 Wash
iugton this week to attend the annual meet
Ing Of the international medical congress.
Additional complaint has been made to the
interstate commission against the Chicago
AMI Northwestern Railroad company by the
BusI.ess Mems association OF Minnesota,
through its president, Senator Z. NJ. Pope, Of
Mankato.
a Browns Valley widow married three
months ago Frank Benois, VINO had worked
around that section several years, and was
supposed 20 be q str gle man, But after be-
ing married two months the widow ascer-
| tains to her sorrow that Frank has 4 wife
living IN Wisconsin.
BY u collision OF 4 wild engiue on the 81.
Paul ana DulUth road with the Wisconsin
Central north Of st. Paul Tuesday afternoon,
both engines were badly damaged, the bag
gage car smashed and both Engineer Sinks on
the wild engine and Engineer Brooks on the
Wisconsin Central train, were SO badly in
jured that their lives are despaired OF. En-
gineer Sinks was AZ fault.
The state board OF railroad commissioners,
john L. Gibbs, ex-Gov. Austin a0d Gen.
Becker, arrived Wednesday a. st, Cloud and
held a meeting. No complaints were heard,
only one farmer-C. W. ~Brandbers, Of Hen
n~ing-having a grievance which was in rcla-
tion 20 cleaning grain Commissioner Gibbs
said that so far complaints were few and far
between, which he took as an indication that
the grain and warehouse laws, az now opera
ted, were giving satisfaction.
The Electric Light company, OF Rapid City,
IS contemplating the purchase OF "a fine
water power just abo-e the city, and the
erection OF a plan. which viii enable them
20 begin The manufacture o. pottery, thing
aud kindred articles. Immense deposits Of
Ere clay exist there, and the articles men
toned can be Manufactured very cheaply and
sold AZ a good profit in competition with
eastern goods. 1t is the present intention
OF the company to put in the necessary
works this fall.
The Pierre Weekly Free Press OF last week
gives II quite severely TO a Blunt lawyer,
thusly: some evening last week a certain
young lady was returning home from a shop
ping tour, and in passing along a residence
street this Blunt limb OF the law jumped from
au alley and made indecent proposals to rhe
young lsdy. The young lady, not being IN.
clined that way, started at n high rate Of
| speed with the Blunt legal luminary In hot
pursuit, etc" When the Free Press reached
this postoiice there was a mad set OF lawyers
III town and all denied the charge. They
promptly drew up a petition addressed TO TIE
editor Of that paper, signed by ail the legal
lights Of the city, demanding the lawyers
name. Up to this time no response has been
received, and unless the matter is cleared up
We anticipate trouble. The reflection Is more
than some Of the disciples Of Blackstone can
| stand. so says a Blunt telegram Of the Gosh.
Grow Lake Special, August 90:
Railroad communication direct with Sioux
City is what Crow Lake people have been
asking for since the settlement Of the cOun-
try, and now that Sioux City has become one
OF the leading western cities, and able TO
| com-ete with st. Paul or Omaha in all things
| needed In this country, the necessity OF direct
connection is more apparent Than ever. We
, haye been promised the conn., letion Of the
Sioux City and Bismarck line from Armour
to White Lake and thence through this place
to q connection with the line running into
Bismarck from Roscoe, but II Is not being
built, and we have no way OF reaching those
immense packing-houses now build.
ing except to drive, and we need the road.
This is surely a Germ, cattle and hog country,
and as Sioux City is soou 20 become the great
packing center Of the northwest, we need this
| road. 1t would be to Sioux City's great adj
| vantage to assist the people along the line of
this route to try to iudacs the Milwaukee to
| build the lire throy gh this fall.
Winons special Aug. 20: A burglary oc
Cured at the resideace OF A. s. Gregory last
night. Mrs. Gregory's niece, Miss Clara
Phillips, Of ST. Paul, who was sleeping with
her mother in a chamber on the secord floor,
was awakened by hearing a noise IN the room.
As she opened her eyes she saw a man stand
ing beside the mantel, with his back toward
her. She judged from the position az his arm
that he had a revolver in his hand, while